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Useful information from Bon Appétit tells you how to distinguish good eggs from bad. The method is simple: All you have to do is drop them in water. If they sink, they’re fresh; if they’re submerged with the wide end up they’re old but still useful. But if they float, they’re bad.

With that out of the way, all we have to do is talk about how good eggs are for your health and as a palate-pleasing entrée on your plate. The myth that eggs are bad for you has pretty much been proven for what it is: a myth. The truth is you can easily eat a dozen eggs a week with no adverse health events, as studies now show that eating that many eggs has no effect on cholesterol levels or triglyceride levels compared to eating less than two eggs per week — even for people with heart disease or type 2 diabetes.

When choosing eggs, either get them from someone local who raises their own free-ranging, pastured chickens or always look for organic brands at the store, with labels that say the chickens were raised in free-range pastures.

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It seems like simple, obvious advice: Eat your vegetables, get some exercise, and, of course, take your vitamins.

Or not.

Decades of research has failed to find substantial evidence that vitamins and supplements do any significant good.

Nevertheless, several shiny new pills and powders have materialized in recent years that promise to deliver health and wellness in ways no other vitamin has before.

One of them, called Ritual , arrives at your doorstep in a bright white and highlighter-yellow box. Inside, you’ll find a 1-month supply of pills. These aren’t your grandma’s vitamins. Each pill is a clear, glass-like capsule filled with a handful of tiny white beads that float suspended in oil.

Despite the fact that each pill is practically a work of art, Ritual’s pills don’t differ much from your standard vitamin. They contain less of some traditional vitamin ingredients that decades of research have shown we don’t need, but have similar amounts of magnesium, Vitamin K, folate, Vitamin B12, iron, boron, Vitamin E, and Vitamin D as a standard Alive-brand vitamin.

Another one of these newly-designed vitamins is Care/of , whose personalized daily vitamin packets come in a box that looks like a tea-bag dispenser with the words “Hi [your name],” printed on the top right corner. Again, the ingredients don’t differ drastically from those in conventional vitamins.

No matter how colorful their packaging or personal their messaging, all of these vitamin formulations fall prey to the exact same problem: We simply do not need vitamins to be healthy. Instead, we should be getting the nutrients that vitamin-makers peddle from the foods we eat.

“We use vitamins as insurance policies against whatever else we might (or might not) be eating, as if by atoning for our other nutritional sins, vitamins can save us from ourselves,” writes science reporter Catherine Price in the book ” Vitamania. ”

In her book, Price suggests that this knowledge about vitamins might help us “rediscover something both surprising and empowering: that, while nutrition itself is amazingly complex, the healthiest, most scientific, and most pleasurable way to eat is not that complicated at all.”